The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1887-06-30
NEWS IN BRIEF.

condemned Anarchists will be granted
| a new trial.
A fire in Barton, w. r., or Friday
last destroyed $1l5,OO0 worth Of prop
erty.
A cotton gin and pickery in New
Orleans was burned on Saturday.
Loss, $4,000.
Gen. Vests freight house at Balls
ton Spa, n. Y, was burned on Satur-
day. Loss, $4,000.
The Wilson, n. c., Cotton Mills
cleared $4,000 in the months of JAN
uary, February and March.
Four thousand four hundred and
siXty-four trees were set out by Florida
school children on Arbor Day.
Two men were killed and third
| badly injured while walking on the
track at Mexico, Mo-, Saturday.
! The Monocount marble quarry, sixty
miles from Carson. Nevada, was to-
tally destroyed by the recent earth
quake.
! The Rev. John Jasper says he has
preached his sermon, "Sun do move,n
over hundred times. He was offered
$500 to preach it in London.
S. A. Nelson, a prominent shoe mer-
chant, died in Charleston last Sunday.
He was New Englander, but came
to Charleston in 1888, at the age of 10.
Three large cotton mills at Manville,
R. l., have shut down on account Of
the weavers' strike. The operatives,
who number 1900, are mostly French
Canadians, are fast leaving the village.
Mrs. Langtry renounced her allegi-
ance to Great Britain at San Francisco
on last Tuesday and took out her first
papers declaring her intention to be-
come a citizen of the United States.
The people. of Taylor county, Ky,
are resisting the collection of taxes by
the United States Marshal to pay
county bonds for i railroad that has
never been built.
A boy with a lighted cigarette is
credited with starting a fire at Wash
ington last Tuesday which burned the
brick warehouse of w. NJ. Gait & Co.,
with about 600 tons of hay and 200
barrels of flour. Loss $1,000; insured.
The entire plant of the Chicago, Mil
waukee and st. Paul Rolling Mills at
Watertown, Wis, was burned Friday
night. Loss $50, 900. Two hundred
men are thrown out of employment.
Mrs. Pickett, the widow of the late
Gen. Pickett, who led the famous
charge on Cemetery Ridge, has ac-
cepted an invitation to accompany the
survivors of her husbands old division
on their trip to Gettysburg next Sat-
urday.
A special from Auburn, Ala, re-
ports the burning of the State Agricul-
tural and Mechanical College, with
chemical laboratory and other appa-
ratus. The building originally cost over
$4,000. The insurance was $50, coo. A
new building will be erected at once.
The defence concluded their case
On last Tuesday in the Jacob Sharpe
bribery trial in New York. Sharpe
stood up pretty we'll after thirty-tWo
days of unrest, but his physicians say
he is in dying condition and that he
cannot live longer than ten days or
two weeks.
Friday was all exciting day in the
New York stock market. False ru-
mors of a falling out between Jay
Gould and Cyrus ". Field and Rus
sell Sage caused great tumble IN
prices; and the excitement was inten-
siied by ru1nors of Gould's death.
The market finally recovered its nor
NAL tone, and no trouble is antici-
pated.
The Louisville tobacco houses of
Thomas H. Glover & Co., Sawyer,
Wallace &; Co., T. B. Parish & Co.,
and the boarding house of Mrs. Annie
Bender, occupying the square between
Main and Market and 9th and 10th
streets, We're totally destroyed by fire
on Saturday morning, together with
$500 hogsheads of tobacco. Total loss
estimated at $3.50, 900, partially insured.
Six bandits attacked a stage at So
nora, Texas, few days ago. One man
was wounded, his servant had his arm
broken, and two ladies were tied to
the wheels of the carriage a"d s., 500
taken from them. 1t was whole day
before the party was found and re-
| lieved. The wounded man died. The
bandits were tracked and pursued, and
two of their number captured and
hanged.
The steel stern-post for the cruiser
! Charleston was successfully cast at
San Francisco June %. The post is %
feet long on the keel, with an upright
of 20 feet, and weighs upwards of
$4,000 pounds. It was claimed by
Eastern competitors for the building
of the cruiser that post Of the size
necessary could not be cast on the Pa
cific coast.
The following, according to the
Deonsche Heres-Zcituag, is the exact
peace strength of the German army as
established by the law Of March IL,
1887: Nineteen thousand two hun
dred and sixty-two officers, 55,447 nom
commissioned officers, 4S paymasters'
assistants, 1920 bandsmen-5,5l6 nom
commissioned officers and 1854 pri-
vates-37S, $50 GetIcite corresponding
to acting corporals) and privates, 3,7O4
hospital assistants and l0,S50 work
men; total 46S,409. This represents an
increase of II, ,l35-l,ll2 officers, 1925
non-coinmissioned officers, 81 paymas-
ters' assistants, 5000 bandsmen, 30,3l5
lance corporals and privates, 173 hos
pital assistants and 7l5 workmen. The
number of horses is S4,077, ali increase
of 2,2SS.
It's difficult to estimate with accu-
/ racy the full extent of the financial
loss resulting from the strike which
the Chicago bricklayers have declared
at an end. The local loss in wages
can be closely estimated, and Chicago
merchants can estimate the amount OF
trade which has been sacrificed. Aside
from this, miners are idle in Pennsyl-
vania; saw mills, and their operatives,
in Michigan and Wisconsin; thousands
of men are thrown out of work IN
stone quarries adjacent to this city;
the pressed brick trade is affected all
over the United States; thousands OF
dollars have been lost to railroad com
nanies: eyery branch of manufacture